"How do LLMs affect productivity and quality? (Much like leaded petrol. There’s some potential benefit for individual users with literally decades of expertise, provided nobody else uses LLMs. The results are catastrophic when everybody is using them.)"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/#doomer-challenge

⚡️ AI isn’t just boosting workplace productivity — like Bitcoin, it’s reshaping how we think about energy.
Rolls-Royce recently suggested that its nuclear technology could position it as the UK’s most valuable company, as demand surges for the power needed to run energy-intensive AI data centers.
Both AI and crypto are accelerating the shift toward renewable and long-term energy solutions.

🛠 Elon Musk says AI and robotics can solve hunger, disease, and poverty. And yes — technology can feed, heal, and improve lives. But at the end of the day, it's still just a tool.
What truly matters is who wields it and why.
It won’t be AI that saves us — but the wisdom, ethics, and intent behind its use.

"But that was just the theory. We don’t yet know how agentic companies will work in practice. Also, the AIs were managing vending machines. (Everyone knows those things are evil.)"

https://mail.blockworks.com/p/the-theory-and-practice-of-ai-companies

Possibly we're worried about the wrong things. It's happened before. A lot.

https://mail.blockworks.com/p/friday-charts-c8f9

The farmers farmed Yupp.ai way too hard and it's had to shut down.
https://blog.yupp.ai/winddown

🧠 AI still makes the occasional weird mistake—but it’s getting scary good.
Very soon, it’ll be nearly impossible to tell the difference between real and AI-generated video.
When we hit that point, it’s a total game-changer—for better and worse:
🎬 Film & TV
🎨 Design & modeling
📢 Advertising
⚠️ Scams & fraud
Still skeptical? Watch this stunning AI-generated concept trailer:
👉 https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1941070476152906183

🤪 The AI-fueled absurdity rolls on. Now Grok’s tossing out wild prophecies: Bitcoin soaring to $25 million by 2046.
At this pace, we’ll be measuring BTC in GDP units and swapping a single coin for beachfront nations.

"All bubbles are bad, but some are more productive than others. When the AI bubble bursts, there will be stellar bargains on GPUs. We'll have a lot of technical people who are much better at applied statistics than they were a decade ago. And there will be the open source models, like Whisper, the tool I used to transcribe all those podcasts."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/#there-is-an-alternative